Art or smut?

Remember Attorney General John Ashcroft? One day he realized that there are bronzed breasts in the corridors of the Justice Department:

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So he ordered the statue covered up, a practice the Obama administration has continued.

The question of whether our eyes can gaze upon art has surfaced again this week and you can blame that pornographer Picasso.

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When it went to auction this week, it went for $180 million, which is said to be the most money ever paid for art at auction, according to the Washington Post.

When a Fox News TV station in New York covered the story, it went all Ashcroft/Obama on the masterpiece.

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New York magazine senior art critic Jerry Saltz called the TV station “sexually sick.”